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local frameDelay, frameTime, currentFrame

function love.load()
	frameDelay   = 1/30 -- Animate with 30 frames per second
	frameTime    = 0.0
	currentFrame = 0 -- Start on the first frame

	-- A table of frames
	frame = {}

	-- Insert all 30 images into that table
	for i = 0, 29 do
		frame[i] = love.graphics.newImage("graphics/stage/stage" .. tostring(i) .. ".png")
	end
end

function love.update(dt)

	-- Time the animation
	frameTime = frameTime + dt

	if frameTime >= frameDelay then
		-- Wrap around the end
		currentFrame = (currentFrame + 1) % 30 -- number of frames
		-- Decrease time by the frame time
		frameTime = frameTime - frameDelay
	end

end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.draw(frame[currentFrame],0,0,0,0)
end

sphyrth wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 11:40 am NOTE: I started with 1 instead of 0 because tables don't reference 0 values. So I guess you have to rename the images starting from "1" instead of "0".

zorg wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 4:08 am Hi and welcome to the forums!

The gigantic yellow warning box on the page for love.graphics.newImage should tell you your mistake.

Also, do use the dt variable so that your thing runs consistently with regards to time.

sphyrth wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 11:40 am Woohoo! Now time for me to provide a sample solution of what to do instead:

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 function love.load()
  stageTime = 0
  stageState = "1"

  -- I'm replacing your "stage = none" with this:
  -- Step 1: (A table of stages)
  stages = {}
 
  -- Step 2: Insert all your 30 images in that table.
  for i = 1, 30 do
   table.insert(stages, love.graphics.newImage("graphics/stage/stage" .. tostring(i) .. ".png")
  end
 end

 function love.update(dt)
 
  --Animation's time--
  stageTime = stageTime + 1

  if stageState == 30 then
   stageState = 1 --This is cause i only made 30 pictures for the animation--
  end

  --Animation's conf--
  if stageTime == 30 then
   stageState = stageState + 1
   stageTime = 0
  end

  -- Now you no longer have to use this laggy thing:
  -- stage = love.graphics.newImage("graphics/stage/stage"..tostring(stageState)..".png")
  -- Instead, look at love.draw()
 end
 
 function love.draw()
  --Animation drawing--
  love.graphics.draw(stages[stageState],0,0,0,0)
 end

NOTE: I started with 1 instead of 0 because tables don't reference 0 values. So I guess you have to rename the images starting from "1" instead of "0".

zorg wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 1:49 pm

sphyrth wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 11:40 am NOTE: I started with 1 instead of 0 because tables don't reference 0 values. So I guess you have to rename the images starting from "1" instead of "0".

table methods indeed usually ignore what's at the 0th key (#, ipairs, etc. won't give "correct" results), but it's still fine to use it, both in terms of speed (thanks to luaJIT handling that) and the fact that there are ways to code around such limitations.

matu wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 10:27 pm

zorg wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 4:08 am Hi and welcome to the forums!

The gigantic yellow warning box on the page for love.graphics.newImage should tell you your mistake.

Also, do use the dt variable so that your thing runs consistently with regards to time.

I don't know how i haven't seen this.

matu wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 11:32 pm Thanks, I know I'm supposed to know certain things about Lua (which I don't quite know) to start with love2d so thanks for the explicit information.